Moles

Anyone else getting overrun by moles this fall?

I’ve tried 4 different style traps and can’t catch em’. Not a poison guy either since we’ve got dogs running around. As a kid, we lost a dog due to rodent poison in the yard.

if you have some spare time, what I did 2 years ago was stuck the garden hose into one of the active holes and just waited. About 30 minutes later I saw the ground moving where the mole was trying to dig out a new tunnel of fix the flood or whetever his thought process was. .22lr into the dirt, one scoop with a shovel and I recovered the body to confirm the kill.

I don’t use poison for the same reason you mentioned. I feel like my method isn’t exactly time efficient but it was more fun and no poison involved.

Moles are one of the easiest critters to catch with a V style clamp trap or the loop trap. You step down a foot wide part of his tunnel and set the trap, when he comes cruising down the tunnel POP you got him. Sometimes with only one trap it can take awhile because they have so many trails, that’s why I have 5 traps. Also put down a Grub killer late spring as that’s what they are feeding on.